MISS­ING MEX­I­CAN PRIEST FOUND

MEX­ICO CITY: A priest whose dis­ap­pear­ance sparked protests in an eastern Mex­i­can town was found alive yes­ter­day but with in­juries con­sis­tent with tor­ture, the Catholic church said. Fa­ther Jose Luis Sanchez Ruiz had last been seen on Thurs­day, and the next day the doors to his church in Catemaco, a town in the eastern state of Ver­acruz, had signs of forced en­try. – AFP